NHL CAPTAINS

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Hi my name is Jeremy Rupke. My goal is to break every hockey skill down into easy to understand articles and videos. I explain everything step-by-step to help others improve. I'm active on Instagram, Facebook and more, you can follow through the links above.
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Jeremy,
Going to start with the fact that I love the site and I’ve learned quite a bit from your articles. I think this post needs a bit more. It’s a nice video and all, but nothing is said about what a captain is actually responsible for, at least as far as the fact that a captain discusses rules and calls with the officials and other players aren’t supposed to, as well as how to assign a good captain. It can be a tough decision for a coach as far as naming a captain and it would be nice to see a little bit of help towards that.

What are your insights on captains at the youth hockey level. I was never a fan of them because I could not see the true value. Most coaches appoint captains based on team votes which turns it into a popularity contest. The age group I am referring to would be Squite, PeeWee and Bantam levels.

I think at younger ages assigning a captain is not necessary. A captain is a leader among the other team mates, and at a young age the leaders are the coaches. To keep things fair you can always have a rotating “C” that changes every month or so, this way players will be rewarded for leadership and good sportsmanship.

Good work here Jeremy. I might be compelled to write a post for your training site. Give me some good reasons for doing so. I get requests to do product reviews sometimes but that can cost $$ after all my time is worth something.
You may want to get your rank up a bit more first. What we could do for now is link our sites. You could be a Allsports friend on my blog roll and I could appear on your blog roll. Then I could maybe do a short post.
Walt AKA All Sports on the Web